CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
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Podtalk, Review: Director Ilker Çatak of ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 17, 2024 - 3:44pmCHICAGO – Public education is in the fight of its life. As curriculums are determined more through the state, parents and politics, the local authority of a child’s educator is being consistently diminished. This subject is the centerpiece of “The Teacher’s Lounge,” co-written and directed by German/Turkish filmmaker Ilker Çatak.
On-Air Film Review: Parental Grievance! Review of ‘Mass’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 16, 2021 - 7:36amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on October 7th, 2021, reviewing the new Bleecker Street Media film “Mass,” in select theaters beginning October 15th.
Interview: Kristin Broadwell on Co-Creating ‘Paper People Play’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 2, 2020 - 4:44amCHICAGO – When the world stopped in March during the pandemic quarantine, there was an online kids-and-play concept invented by two sisters that really took off. “Paper People Play” is a deceptively simple website that evolves the paper doll form, bringing it to 21st Century children. Kristin and Brooke Broadwell were the co-creators, and the story of the concept is fascinating.
